Example sentences of "years [prep] the first [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1735 , four years after the first folio edition , an octavo abridgement appeared in two volumes , with plates reduced , but containing the whole of the practical part and species included in the folio . |
| 2 | Mankind has a powerful desire to rationalise its actions ; and when people found themselves ten , twenty years after the First World War still paying housing subsidies , this desire to rationalise , and perhaps a natural sense of shame , forbade them to recognise that they were doing so merely out of unwillingness to recognise that 1914 prices and money values had gone for ever . |
| 3 | This music , incidentally , was a vital influence in British and American bourgeois domestic song , an influence which can in fact be traced right through to the years after the First World War , in such singers as Al Jolson . |
| 4 | For the first two years of the First World War there was no conscription in Britain , but there was machinery to recruit volunteers . |
| 5 | Britain encouraged the growth of Zionism in Palestine in the early years of the First World War because she wanted American Jews to ally their country in the war against Turkey . |
| 6 | Education in Wolverton was well established thirty years before the first Education Act . |
| 7 | This pattern of parliamentary activity was rapidly altered ( though much of the descriptive language remained the same ) in the twenty-five years before the First World War . |
| 8 | Even in India , where railway-building developed rapidly between the 1860s and 1880s , the crucial feeder lines most important to the exploitation of India 's resources were only built in the twenty years before the First World War . |
| 9 | This process was to gain momentum in the last three decades of the nineteenth century , reaching a peak in the years before the First World War . |
| 10 | Years before the First World War it was not unusual to see bare-footed boys running from street to street selling the Echo in all types of weathers . |
| 11 | SCIENCE FICTION breeds more science fiction and success breeds sequels : these two have been a long time coming Forty years since the first Foundation tale , 14 since 001 : A Space Odyssey — can Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke repeat their successes ? |
| 12 | Erm before we started this drawing which so if I co , perhaps if I stand here everyone will be able to see which is probably fairly familiar and in , in most respects it goes back about six years to the first master plan that was produced for the estate erm to provide a combination of regeneration and new build . |
| 13 | ‘ Broken back over the five years to the first rent review , the true rent equates to just £24 per sq ft 40pc less than actually reported . ’ |